Blockchains, Cloud & Development

Month: February 2016

This little video popped up on my feeds. Was a nice little look behind the scenes of how the UX designers work, and how UX is a fundamentally important aspect of any application, sometimes as much so as the code behind it.

Note: CPU mining is extrememly inefficient I was mining an an 8 core machine for 3 days and didn’t mine a block, but it is chance based so your results may vary. Either get a machine with a GPU, or think about purchasing mining power from a provider.See my previous blog post about how I purchased mining contracts from a dedicated provider.

If you have an Azure account and want to experiment with spinning up a VM to do some CPU mining, here are the instructions to go through. It is made complicated due to the Ubuntu VM images only creating disks of 30GB which isn’t large enough to hold the Ethereum blockchain.
There are 4 major steps:

Prestep – Prepare a wallet to mine into.

Create a new Ubuntu VM on Azure.

Configure a 2nd hard drive.
Move /home to the new hard drive.

Install and run geth.

Prestep – Prepare a wallet to mine into

It is more convenient to have your miner send any mined Eth to a central wallet that you control. The easiest way is to use the desktop Mist wallet

I have been playing around with the Windows 10 bridges that allow you to port applications from other platforms (iOS, WP Silverlight, Hosted web apps, etc) to the Windows 10 UWP platform.

Today I wanted to show you how easy it is to take an iOS game and port it straight to a Windows 10 UWP application.
I’m porting the classic game Canabalt which was originally an online flash game, which they then ported to an iPhone game.